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Full-Text Articles in Transnational Law
Openness In Extraction, Lisa E. Sachs, Shefa Siegel
Openness In Extraction, Lisa E. Sachs, Shefa Siegel
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
More than a decade before becoming President of the United States, Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer, observed that, among the branches of property law, the distribution of mining rights most elegantly reflects the vicissitudes of social and political relations. According to Hoover, mining rights were a "never-ending contention," as old as economic and civil conflict, among four principle classes – overlord, state, landowner, and miner. "Somebody," he concluded, "has to keep peace and settle disputes."
Today, with the prices of major natural-resource commodities – including oil, coal, copper, gold, and iron ore – doubling, tripling, or rising even faster, the …
Wider Role For Our Miners In Africa, Lisa E. Sachs, Joel Negin, Glenn Denning
Wider Role For Our Miners In Africa, Lisa E. Sachs, Joel Negin, Glenn Denning
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
The Australian government is rapidly increasing aid to Africa. But the real story about the country's engagement in Africa is the massive investment by Australian companies in extractive industries.
More than 150 Australian resource companies are active in more than 40 African countries with a total investment greater than $20 billion, including in coal in Mozambique, copper and uranium in Zambia, gold in Eritrea and uranium in Malawi.